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Speech by President Bashar al-Assad to ministers after the swearing-in of Syria's new government, 16 April 2011. This is atranslationissued by the official Syrian news agency, Sana.
April 16, 2011
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In the beginning, I would like to welcome you to your important positions of…
Speech by President Bashar al-Assad to the Syrian parliament on 30 March 2011 in response to a wave of protests around the country.
This is atranslationpublished on the Syria Comment blog. Forcommentaryon the speech, see "The boldness of Bashar al-Assad".
March 30, 2011
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Ladies and…
Text of final statement from the Arab summit in Amman, 27-28 March, 2001
Final statement issued by the Arab League Council at the summit level; ordinary session No. 13 in Amman, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on 2 and 3 Muharram 1422 Hegira, corresponding to 27 and 28 March 2001:
1. In response…
Basic information
Background and course of the war
(Wikipedia)
Lebanon Updates
Hour by hour chronology of the war
Maps of Israeli bombing in Lebanon
Legal aspects of the war
Human Rights Watch
Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
Amnesty International report, 10 August 2006
Climbing out of…
Speech by Yasser Arafat at the Arab summit in Beirut, 27-28 March, 2002.
Israel sought to impose conditions for Mr Arafat's travel to Beirut. When it emerged that even if Israel allowed him to go it would not necessarily allow him to return to Palestine, he decided not attend the summit and…
On 14 February 2005 former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri died in a huge explosion as as his motorcade drove approached the seafront in Beirut.
The attack was widely blamed on Syria or its supporters in Lebanon and led to the so-called Cedar Revolution.
This page links to news reports about…
Pre-Islamic Arabia
The original Arab, the Bedouin
by Philip K Hitti (from "The Arabs: A Short History")
Ancient accounts of Arabia
(from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook)
Herodotus, c. 430 BCE
Strabo, c. 22 CE
Dio Cassius, c. 220 CE
Ammianus Marcellinus, c. 380 CE
Procopius of Caesarea, c.…
Mourid Barghouti, Palestinian poet
Mourid Barghouti, the Palestinian poet, was born in the mountainous village of Deir Ghassaneh near Ramallah in 1944 and later studied English literature at university in Cairo. He graduated in 1967 - only to become a refugee as a result of the war with Israel.
He…
Extracts from the text of the "Beirut Declaration" (final communique) issued by the Arab summit in Beirut, 28 March, 2002
We, the kings, presidents, and emirs of the Arab states meeting in the Council of the Arab League Summit in Beirut, capital of Lebanon... have conducted a thorough assessment…
Tawfiq Yusuf AWWAD (1911-1988, Lebanon)
Best known for Death in Beirut (amazon.com; amazon.co.uk), which tells the story of a Shia village girl and foreshadows the Lebanese civil war.
Turki al-HAMAD (Saudi Arabia)
Author of a controversial trilogy that was banned in several Arab countries and…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
